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Patented Nov. 8,1881,

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U. R STANTON.

` l CLASP FOR GARMENTS. No. 249,415'.

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i d H UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ULIOAR. STANTON, OF `VRICHMOND, INDIANA.4

CLASP Fon GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,415,A dated November 8, 1881. Application filed September 19, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, ULrc R. STANTON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing atRiehmond, in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clasps for Garments and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Thisinvention relates to improvements in clasps for attaching pants and drawers to suspenders, and also for holding pants and drawers of the person up at the same time and together; and its object is to dispense with the ordinary buttons used for these purposes, and substitute, asfa secure and ready means of fastening, my improved clasp.

My inventionconsists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will herein after be more fully set forth and specically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, Figure 1 shows my improved clasps attached to the pants and sus pender. Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional view, showing the loop open. Fig. 3 is a front View, showing a section of material clamped in the clasp. Fig. 4t is a central vertical sectional view, and showing the loop ends engaging and the clamp pressing them in that position. Fig. 5 is a view of the blank which forms the clampingsleeve, and Fig. 6 is a view of the blank which forms the clasping loop and hook.`

In making my improved clasp the following course of manufacture may be pursued: I strike out from a piece of malleable and elastic metal a blank substantially of the form as shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings, and having the central straight bar piece, a, the enlarged circular terminations b and b', and the projection c. I then strike the projection c up in the shape of ahook, and then bend the blank over,

` so thatthe other end shall cover the face of the hook and register with each other, thus pression an article between the ends. I then strike out the blank for forming theclamp, substantially of the form as seen in Fig. 5 of the drawings,having the button end d, the straight shank e, and thetransverse section f. rIhe button part or end d is now bent outward over and on the shank, and then the ends of the transverse section are bent'in the form ot' a square Vsleeve around the loop-shank, forming a sliding clamp, B, substantially as seen in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings. The clasp is then ready for application and use, which may be effected by putting the button end of the clasp in the button-hole of the suspender or band, and then inserting the band of the pants or drawers, or the bands ot' both, between the ends-of the loop, and then drawing up on the clamp the sleeve Aascends theloop and compresses the garments between the ends and on the hook, and securely retains them in that position. To release the garment the clamp is slid down, and

the compression being relieved the garment is lifted from the hook and withdrawn.

It will be seen that the pants or drawers may be alone attached, or both, as suits the conven-` ienceof the wearer; also, that the clasp may be attached to a suspender; and, incase where the pants are sustained by other means, the clasp may be employed to hold up the drawers. l It is also observed that the device may be used to hold in position the skirts of a woman by attaching them to the bands and thence to Suspenders; or, should no Suspenders be worn,

the pants and drawers can be held together by the clasp, or the skirts can be held together by the bands bein gclasped together, thus holding them up evenly; also, skirts may be held IOO 2. As an improved article of manufacture,

the garment-clasp consisting ofthe folded metal loop A, having the enlarged terminations b b and the projecting hook c, and the metal slide operating as a locking device for the lower ends B, having the button d, said parts being aiof the folded loop.

ranged for operation as set forth. In testimony whereof I affix my signature 3. The combination7 substantially as dein presence of two Witnesses.

5 scribed, of the at metallic elampin g plate v v ULIC Rr STANTON.

formed at its upper end with a button or hook, Witnesses and at the lower end a clamping-sleeve engag- HARRY STOUT,

ing and sliding on the folded metallieloop, and WILLIAM V. KIMBLE.` 

